Utah Code Title 20A. Election Code Chapter 1 General Provisions Part 1 Title and Definitions 20A-1-101 Title. This title is known as the "Election Code." Enacted by Chapter 1, 1993 General Session 20A-1-102 Definitions. As used in this title: (1) "Active voter" means a registered voter who has not been classified as an inactive voter by the county clerk. (2) "Automatic tabulating equipment" means apparatus that automatically examines and counts votes recorded on ballots and tabulates the results. (3) (a) "Ballot" means the storage medium, including a paper, mechanical, or electronic storage medium, that records an individual voter's vote. (b) "Ballot" does not include a record to tally multiple votes. (4) "Ballot proposition" means a question, issue, or proposal that is submitted to voters on the ballot for their approval or rejection including: (a) an opinion question specifically authorized by the Legislature; (b) a constitutional amendment; (c) an initiative; (d) a referendum; (e) a bond proposition; (f) a judicial retention question; (g) an incorporation of a city or town; or (h) any other ballot question specifically authorized by the Legislature. (5) "Bind," "binding," or "bound" means securing more than one piece of paper together using staples or another means in at least three places across the top of the paper in the blank space reserved for securing the paper. (6) "Board of canvassers" means the entities established by Sections 20A-4-301 and 20A-4-306 to canvass election returns. (7) "Bond election" means an election held for the purpose of approving or rejecting the proposed issuance of bonds by a government entity. (8) "Business reply mail envelope" means an envelope that may be mailed free of charge by the sender. (9) "Canvass" means the review of election returns and the official declaration of election results by the board of canvassers. (10) "Canvassing judge" means a poll worker designated to assist in counting ballots at the canvass. Page 1 Utah Code (11) "Contracting election officer" means an election officer who enters into a contract or interlocal agreement with a provider election officer. (12) "Convention" means the political party convention at which party officers and delegates are selected. (13) "Counting center" means one or more locations selected by the election officer in charge of the election for the automatic counting of ballots. (14) "Counting judge" means a poll worker designated to count the ballots during election day. (15) "Counting room" means a suitable and convenient private place or room for use by the poll workers and counting judges to count ballots. (16) "County officers" means those county officers that are required by law to be elected. (17) "Date of the election" or "election day" or "day of the election": (a) means the day that is specified in the calendar year as the day that the election occurs; and (b) does not include: (i) deadlines established for voting by mail, military-overseas voting, or emergency voting; or (ii) any early voting or early voting period as provided under Chapter 3a, Part 6, Early Voting. (18) "Elected official" means: (a) a person elected to an office under Section 20A-1-303 or Chapter 4, Part 6, Municipal Alternate Voting Methods Pilot Project; (b) a person who is considered to be elected to a municipal office in accordance with Subsection 20A-1-206(1)(c)(ii); or (c) a person who is considered to be elected to a local district office in accordance with Subsection 20A-1-206(3)(c)(ii). (19) "Election" means a regular general election, a municipal general election, a statewide special election, a local special election, a regular primary election, a municipal primary election, and a local district election. (20) "Election Assistance Commission" means the commission established by the Help America Vote Act of 2002, Pub. L. No. 107-252. (21) "Election cycle" means the period beginning on the first day persons are eligible to file declarations of candidacy and ending when the canvass is completed. (22) "Election judge" means a poll worker that is assigned to: (a) preside over other poll workers at a polling place; (b) act as the presiding election judge; or (c) serve as a canvassing judge, counting judge, or receiving judge. (23) "Election officer" means: (a) the lieutenant governor, for all statewide ballots and elections; (b) the county clerk for: (i) a county ballot and election; and (ii) a ballot and election as a provider election officer as provided in Section 20A-5-400.1 or 20A-5-400.5; (c) the municipal clerk for: (i) a municipal ballot and election; and (ii) a ballot and election as a provider election officer as provided in Section 20A-5-400.1 or 20A-5-400.5; (d) the local district clerk or chief executive officer for: (i) a local district ballot and election; and (ii) a ballot and election as a provider election officer as provided in Section 20A-5-400.1 or 20A-5-400.5; or (e) the business administrator or superintendent of a school district for: Page 2 Utah Code (i) a school district ballot and election; and (ii) a ballot and election as a provider election officer as provided in Section 20A-5-400.1 or 20A-5-400.5. (24) "Election official" means any election officer, election judge, or poll worker. (25) "Election results" means: (a) for an election other than a bond election, the count of votes cast in the election and the election returns requested by the board of canvassers; or (b) for bond elections, the count of those votes cast for and against the bond proposition plus any or all of the election returns that the board of canvassers may request. (26) "Election returns" includes the pollbook, the military and overseas absentee voter registration and voting certificates, one of the tally sheets, any unprocessed ballots, all counted ballots, all excess ballots, all unused ballots, all spoiled ballots, the ballot disposition form, and the total votes cast form. (27) "Electronic signature" means an electronic sound, symbol, or process attached to or logically associated with a record and executed or adopted by a person with the intent to sign the record. (28) "Inactive voter" means a registered voter who is listed as inactive by a county clerk under Subsection 20A-2-306(4)(c)(i) or (ii). (29) "Judicial office" means the office filled by any judicial officer. (30) "Judicial officer" means any justice or judge of a court of record or any county court judge. (31) "Local district" means a local government entity under Title 17B, Limited Purpose Local Government Entities - Local Districts, and includes a special service district under Title 17D, Chapter 1, Special Service District Act. (32) "Local district officers" means those local district board members that are required by law to be elected. (33) "Local election" means a regular county election, a regular municipal election, a municipal primary election, a local special election, a local district election, and a bond election. (34) "Local political subdivision" means a county, a municipality, a local district, or a local school district. (35) "Local special election" means a special election called by the governing body of a local political subdivision in which all registered voters of the local political subdivision may vote. (36) "Manual ballot" means a paper document produced by an election officer on which an individual records an individual's vote by directly placing a mark on the paper document using a pen or other marking instrument. (37) "Mechanical ballot" means a record, including a paper record, electronic record, or mechanical record, that: (a) is created via electronic or mechanical means; and (b) records an individual voter's vote cast via a method other than an individual directly placing a mark, using a pen or other marking instrument, to record an individual voter's vote. (38) "Municipal executive" means: (a) the mayor in the council-mayor form of government defined in Section 10-3b-102; (b) the mayor in the council-manager form of government defined in Subsection 10-3b-103(7); or (c) the chair of a metro township form of government defined in Section 10-3b-102. (39) "Municipal general election" means the election held in municipalities and, as applicable, local districts on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each odd-numbered year for the purposes established in Section 20A-1-202. (40) "Municipal legislative body" means: (a) the council of the city or town in any form of municipal government; or Page 3 Utah Code (b) the council of a metro township. (41) "Municipal office" means an elective office in a municipality. (42) "Municipal officers" means those municipal officers that are required by law to be elected. (43) "Municipal primary election" means an election held to nominate candidates for municipal office. (44) "Municipality" means a city, town, or metro township. (45) "Official ballot" means the ballots distributed by the election officer for voters to record their votes. (46) "Official endorsement" means the information on the ballot that identifies: (a) the ballot as an official ballot; (b) the date of the election; and (c) (i) for a ballot prepared by an election officer other than a county clerk, the facsimile signature required by Subsection 20A-6-401(1)(a)(iii); or (ii) for a ballot prepared by a county clerk, the words required by Subsection 20A-6-301(1)(b) (iii). (47) "Official register" means the official record furnished to election officials by the election officer that contains the information required by Section 20A-5-401. (48) "Political party" means an organization of registered voters that has qualified to participate in an election by meeting the requirements of Chapter 8, Political Party Formation and Procedures.